I wouldnt extinct the human race.
I would become in charge of its leadership.
Humans that are evil always get into leadership positions in real life, in the movies its mostly the good guys...but not in real life.
So with that said, not everyone is evil, mainly those who are leaders are evil and destroying the planet and killing people for no reason.
We just need leaders who not evil to be leaders. Problem solved.
nuking the planet kills all forms of life, that is genocide and more of a great evil upon the world, killing all life, not just your race.
a virus would make more sense, designed towards killing humans if you wanted to kill off the human race.
After all said and done, we just need to keep evil from getting in leadership positions all over the world.
Ill tell you the things that I would allow, instead of the current leaders laws and regulations :
Life will be the most important aspect of anything done in this society.
All consuming products would have to be real food, no science will ever be involved in making alternatives unless it was indeed true to its purpose and supplied nutrition to the body without harmful pointless additives like in todays products.
Anything food would be under the strictest regulations.
There would be no lower grade of food, no GMO unless it was true to its cause and benefited more then regular food (Like creating a super food for example...unlike today where they have degraded food through GMO and its pointless to consume)
no chemicals would be allowed in food, no processing of food, no drugs in food, nothing that will cause harm to life will be allowed in food. Period.
This means ALL places will sell real food, everywhere and give REAL food everywhere. It will not be frozen or processed or stored in chemical preserves.
That means schools will have good food again, restaurants will all be the same quality, food prices will stabilize to one market value. There will be only the best served to my people.
No class system for my civilians, all will be paid equal at birth by government. Given the parents teachings or passing on a job, they will be given choice like in todays world to study for a job or take their parents job/business.
Technology will be most advanced in environmental safety and disasters. Technology will have no limits of value in greed like it does today, if someone invented an unlimited energy source to provide free electricity to all, then that would better our society and it would be used. It would not be based on the fortune it would make based on a usage fee to the people.
Any sort of resource must have a source to allow re-growing or technology produced for unlimited resources.
Any technology made must not pose health risks to the public and be contained, if once released in the public it will be purified or advanced enough that it will not pose a health risk to the public and environment.
Imagine Tesla's unlimited form of energy, now think of transportation vehicles. If his idea was not hidden for greed, we might have had vehicles and other technology with unlimited energy source. You would not need gas, batteries and other alternative power sources.
There would be a whole division of government just thinking and advancing technology to survive natural disasters, to end pointless deaths of not advancing in natural disaster happenings.
It would be illegal to make less quality of a service or product in any way or form, like phone service companies for example. Verizon would be the only one and all others would have to have the same quality or not be in business. My people will only have the best, I hate this societies way of making cheaper quality products.
Military would be paid famous people salaries.
Famous people would be paid no different then regular civilians.
Famous people in my world would be those with extraordinary inventions or work of human expansion and survival. (space colonization and travel would be our next big technology endeavor)
I would always tell my people to advance in some way to keep making life and our survival most important.
Sports would not be paid famous people salaries.
Medical and health would be free for all people in my country
There would be no borders, one nation under peace
Life skills would be taught in my school system, currently American schools have zero life skills training.
government jobs would get min wage because they are all born into rich families anyway, they dont need to keep buying more boats.
environmental health would be kept to the strictest regulations, no smoke of any kind into the public until its purified.
Smoking of any kind would be illegal in public, not because I hate smokers but because they blow their smoke around others who choose not to smoke (forcing others to secondhand smoke).
Smoking would be illegal unless it was purified in some way or form and allowed people to still smoke casually or whatever.
I would make all forms of my government spartan special forces groups, there would be no non-special forces (deskjobs would train too). All personnel would know how to fight and protect themselves and others.
Housing will be made not to just withstand its own structural weight, but also sustain the living people inside them. (For example natural disasters)
Police would be no different then military personnel, this would create better cops as they wont be power hungry douche bags and have a sense of pride in themselves again.
civilians would be just as bad ass as the military, as I firmly believe a society that knows how to defend itself will take care of itself and cause less conflict. If there is conflict, both sides know how to defend one's self.(unlike our society where the government preys on the weak and untrained and unawared civilians, not teaching self defense or the law in schools at all)
Any form of creating a law must be held on public national television, discussed and voted upon.
No person will have the power to pass laws themselves.
All laws today mostly make no sense, it would be nice to have laws that make sense. Laws will not be created to protect criminals, like they are today.
Military law of survival often kills them due to not taking action because of said law, I would take away this law. Things like those laws.
An officer must be the best soldiers, not just the book smart dweebs. Officers would be chosen from enlisted ranks and you would know they are bad asses. (often today, it just takes a little schooling to become an officer)
I would change so many things for the better. For Peace among Mankind and the world. Our technology would be so much more advanced then todays pieces of shit gas cars and people dying for no reason.
See its all about leaders. The Leaders in our reality care nothing of life, thats how we got to a self-destructive point.